Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Simulated game
Patent
1978-11-27
1982-11-16
Marlo, George J.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Simulated game
A63B 6936
Patent
active
043592252
ABSTRACT:
A ball entrapment device particularly designed for use in a golfing game such as "Softgolf", which game involves the use of a lightweight ball some five inches in diameter for example, whose weight to size relationship is such that the ball will not travel very far, even when hit by an appropriately oversized golfclub, using the same forceful swing that a golfer uses in playing regulation golf. Our ball trap utilizes a plurality of individual tines, which are placed at evenly spaced intervals about the interior of a ring-shaped supporting member. These tines are angled inwardly, and are flexibly mounted so as to deflect downwardly under the weight of an approaching ball, such that the ball can readily enter the trap. These fingers are quite resilient, such that they quickly regain their original angled relationship to the supporting surface. After the ball has passed through the center of the trap, it encounters other tines on the far side of the trap, the tips of which tines typically encounter a mid portion of the ball. Because the tine membes have column strength, they do not bend, but rather serve as an effective means for stopping the ball such that it does not leave the trap. If the ball tends to rebound, it then encounters the tips of the tines over which it had originally passed, which prevent the ball from leaving the trap in the direction from which it had come. Other features of our trap include vane like members that tend to turn the ball into the trap, even when it is approaching in a direction not precisely aligned with the center of the trap.
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Baldorossi Blanche N.
Baldorossi Raymond F.
Marlo George J.
Renfro Julian C.
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